Did Spock & Chapel break up by TOS because of Uhura?

[valden]

Usually I am an old school fan that believes or understands why many dont like spock having romances and the essence of his character was that he is meant to be un-attainable . Examples is the side of paradise or why in TOS, Chapel love was not returned. However this show seem to be going in on spock always needing to have a girlfriend and be into a girl even if it breaks TOS canon. I thought it was too soon for spock to get with chapel when he and tpring just took a break 5 minutes prior , I wish he ended with with tpring once and for all.

Spock/Tpring and Spock/Chapel are two pairing the writers have gone out of their way to kind of retcon thought they have roots in tos. So what about the other pairing that was more favoured by TOS fans that racism denied and that is Spock/uhura.

In TOS season 1, Spock and Uhura were quite flirty and spock seem to enjoy uhura's company and admired her talents, class, a commonality, beauty and love for music. He found Chapel weird and was aloof to her feelings for him to the point Chapel was seen as a pathetic female character where I am told the only reason she was on the show was because she (the actress) was Gene Roddenberry mistress. (even if Nichelle Nicohls also had an affair with him too)

I wonder if by season 3 or season 4 as Spock continues to grow and become more vulcan, he begins to see uhura in a different light and just a better woman and someone he has more in common with than chapel or tpring, hence why things are the way they are in tos.

uhura and spock been openly flirty in a way that will not be appropriate if spock had a girlfriend
chapel's feelings become one sided
tpring no longer has interest.

Since TOS already has fixed an outcome and I did not think the show needed to add a lot to spock romantic past where he can have sex with chapel and tpring in the same week but since they have gone overboard now, I don't see how they will not touch spock/uhura in the later seasons and by then Gooding's Uhura will become more like Nichols Uhura.

Again this is just a fan theory.

Also issues with retcon and over adding to things that was not needed, you just cant stop and i dont think the writers will stop until they get to the spock/uhura pairing which was also had roots in tos.

Usually on tv shows, the last and most important romance pairing only happens at the very end of the show not the beginning and the fact that they are focusing so much spock/chapel/tpring so early and knowing what we know by TOS season 1 with episodes such as Charlie X and The Man Trap or Is there no truth in beauty that showed potential for spock/uhura pairing.

I wonder if this fan theory will be true.

 

[Uhura's Song]

Interesting idea. I think the breakup will be caused by:

1) T'Pring pon farr.
2) T'Pring reunion.
3) Something bad will happen and Spock will blame it on him being too emotional and will therefore embrace his Vulcan side again. Chapel will try, but won't dig the chill as much, and eventually move on.

 

[Yistaan]

Spock and Chapel will break up because of Roger Korby. Could SNW add other reasons? Sure. But why make things more complicated?

Chapel finds someone better, Korby. She dumps Spock. Spock goes back to T'Pring unaware she's already with Stonn (with a fling with Leila Kalomi somewhere in that time).

Chapel only breaks things off with Korby because his android body transfer went bad. That's literally the only reason.

Chapel tries to go back to Spock. Spock logically assumes that if Chapel could dump him for Korby, she'll just dump him again when someone else like Korby comes along, and so he refuses. Thus we get the situation in TOS. It's not that complicated if you break down what we know.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Korby might be a reaction to Spock going back to T'Pring.

 

[Paul755]

I think Korby will be Chapels rebound relationship. Something happens that pushes her and Spock apart and she leaves the ship to join Korby.

The fact she is the only “greyed out” character on the poster has to mean something.

 

[Yistaan]

Also if Spock dumps Chapel and realizes he made a mistake, I expect him to be more emotional in TOS, not less (trying to reignite things with Chapel again--there's perfect opportunity after Amok Time). Chapel dumping Spock makes the bridge between this fairly chipper, unusually emotional Spock in SNW to the cold, calculating, ruthless officer seen in TOS, once he finally shuts down all emotions to block out the pain. Like James Bond finally becomes a cold calculating killing machine spy once he realizes Vesper played him for a fool at the end of Casino Royale.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Also if Spock dumps Chapel and realizes he made a mistake, I expect him to be more emotional in TOS, not less (trying to reignite things with Chapel again--there's perfect opportunity after Amok Time). Chapel dumping Spock makes the bridge between this fairly chipper, unusually emotional Spock in SNW to the cold, calculating, ruthless officer seen in TOS, once he finally shuts down all emotions to block out the pain. Like James Bond finally becomes a cold calculating killing machine spy once he realizes Vesper played him for a fool at the end of Casino Royale.

That's an odd read on Spock in TOS.

 

[Pauln6]

I think the relationship will come to an end because of Spock's desire to be logical in his command decisions or possibly because Chapel recognises that he lacks the emotional maturity to make objective command decisions while in a relationship with a colleague - similar to Picard and Darrin. You saw him delaying taking action in episode one. The groundwork is there.

Chapel is TOS is not often forthcoming in her motivations but SNW suggests she understands Spock a lot better than we give her credit - her comment in Naked Time, "The others might believe that but not me," has far more context. When she asks him to call her Christine in Amok time, there is much more context now - an attempt to move the dial - to shift more towards their old friendship. Possibly she is the only person on board who knows about Ponn Farr, if not the side effects, but keeps his counsel. Her surprise at seeing T'Pring is more - whoa what's she doing back? I wonder if they will avoid doing scenes with Uhura and T'Pring in SNW but that ship may already have sailed.

I think Spock over-compensates in TOS, keeping Chapel at a respectable arms length. His flirtation with Uhura is buoyed by the knowledge that there is no risk. It is just flirtation. The way that SNW foreshadows their TOS relationships is one of the more fun parts about the show.

 

[FederationHistorian]

I agree that Spock will realize he more in common with Uhura. But I do not think that Uhura will be the reason that Spock and Chapel break up. No.

I think it’s because Spock, despite being a more emotional Spock in SNW than in TOS, will still be Spock and will still be too emotionally distant for Chapel. Chapel being unable to turn off her emotions or even control them might even be a factor in the breakup (and would fit in with the callbacks to ENT i.e. T’Pol & Trip). Which will force Chapel to turn to Korby.

Then Una will be as a rebound for Spock, who might be the only one who understands that Spock is torn between two worlds (Q & A left that door open). And then T’Pring will come back into the picture and they’ll elope. Which would help explain why Uhura and Chapel don’t recognize T’Pring or that Spock married her, as they assumed that Spock had ended his relationship with T'Pring already. And obviously Una has nothing to say about it since she isn’t on the Enterprise anymore when “Amok Time” takes place. Though I wouldn’t put it past SNW to remake the end of “Amok Time” so that Una can add her input.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Spock and Chapel will break up because of Roger Korby. Could SNW add other reasons? Sure. But why make things more complicated?

Chapel finds someone better, Korby. She dumps Spock. Spock goes back to T'Pring unaware she's already with Stonn (with a fling with Leila Kalomi somewhere in that time).

Chapel only breaks things off with Korby because his android body transfer went bad. That's literally the only reason.

Chapel tries to go back to Spock. Spock logically assumes that if Chapel could dump him for Korby, she'll just dump him again when someone else like Korby comes along, and so he refuses. Thus we get the situation in TOS. It's not that complicated if you break down what we know.

"Last Week On SOAP"

 

[C.E. Evans]

I'm in the camp that Spock and Chapel will break up because of Spock.

To quote McCoy from another reality:
"You know, Spock, if an Earth girl says 'It's me, not you,'--it's definitely you."

 

[Set Harth]

Like James Bond finally becomes a cold calculating killing machine spy once he realizes Vesper played him for a fool

But it wasn't that simple, as M explained.